Successful students 1-2

Successful students

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Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students…

1.                     ….. are responsible and active. Successful students get involved in are active participants in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own effort controls your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, and you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored daydream, or sleep. Or, you can actively listen, think, question, experience. Either option cost one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class to active the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2.                     …. Have educational goals. Successful students have legitimates goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desire.

Ask yourself these questions: what am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your” hot buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors I your success as a college student. If your educational goals are truly yours, not someone else’s, they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude. If you are familiar with these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you tire of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t everything can and will.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!